The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde
By Nina Gurianova (NHC Fellow, 2007–08) In this groundbreaking study, Nina Gurianova identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage to the Constructivism of the 1920s. Gurianova identifies what she terms an “aesthetics of anarchy”—art-making without rules—that greatly influenced early twentieth-century modernists. Setting the … Continued